Too Big, Too Small

      I think the reason we have such a hard time recognizing what God is doing in our world is that it is both too big and too small. On an individual level, He is performing microsurgery, the kind for which doctors wear magnifying loupes. He is transplanting hearts, rewiring brains. On a global level, He is transplanting believers, overthrowing nations, and using myriad situations I can't begin to understand. The barrage of news available today can tell us what man is doing, but men, even the wisest Christians, cannot tell us what God is doing. His plan is too big, our minds are too small, .
     So we see God's hand in our circumstances in brief glimpses, blurred by our own preconceptions. We are trying to watch surgery through a telescope, world events through a microscope. No wonder we misunderstand. God always does what is right, but we can only see that when the conditions are just right. God's loving hand versus our Goldilocks vision, nothing too big, nothing too small. He has written history, but it is also a mystery. God interweaves fallen humanity, Satan's profanity and His own sovereignty into one seamless saga, but the end of the story is easy to understand--we live happily ever after.